Population mobility and spread of HIV across the Indo-Nepal border.
ABSTRACT The article reviews information on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and behavioural networking to examine through a systematic search of electronic databases and web-based information resources, and the review focuses on studies about types of the virus, prevalence of HIV, and sexual and injecting networking. HIV-1 (subtype...

Virus del dengue en Brasil, 1986-2006.
RESUMEN En Brasil se han notificado 4 243 049 casos de dengue entre 1981 y 2006, de ellos 5 817 casos de dengue hemorrágico/síndrome de choque por dengue (DH/SCD) y un total de 338 casos mortales. A pesar de que la enfermedad ha afectado a todas las...

Public health nutrition: from principles to practice.
Public health nutrition: from principles to practice Lawrence M, Worsley T (eds) Allen & Unwin, 2007 ISBN: 978 1 74175 102 4. RRP: $69.95. 492 pages. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT text on public health nutrition, led by Australian public health nutritionists and including contributions by a number...

Gene Segment Identified in Virulent Human H5N1 Viruses.
Key discovery may enable development of vaccines, therapeutics BOSTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Viruses whose genomes constantly mutate, such as the H5N1 "bird flu", are driving a race to find relatively unchanging segments of their genomes; successful identification of these segments may allow more successful vaccines and...

Immtech Completes Enrollment in Phase III Pivotal Trial of Pafuramidine for African Sleeping Sickness.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has completed enrollment in a Phase III pivotal trial of its oral drug candidate, pafuramidine maleate (pafuramidine), to treat first-stage patients (those with no evidence of central nervous system involvement) for African trypanosomiasis, also known as...

Brinker International Board Declares Common Dividend.
DALLAS, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors for Brinker International, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share on the common stock of the company. The dividend will be paid on Mar. 28, 2007 to shareholders of record as of Mar. 15, 2007. At...

African-American Pioneer Charles H. Bynum: A Fighter Against Both Polio and Segregation Is Recognized by the March of Dimes.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As Americans prepare to commemorate Black History Month, the March of Dimes pays tribute to one man who fought both the dreaded epidemic disease polio and the evils of segregation, and whose legacy has not received the recognition it deserves. ...

Rising enterovirus 71 threat compared to polio.
Enterovirus 71 infection that results in CNS involvement can induce long-term neurologic sequelae in children, including low intelligence and behavioral problems, reported Dr. Luan-Yin Chang of National Taiwan University Hospital, and associates. Best known as a cause of benign hand-foot-and-mouth disease and of viral encephalitis, enterovirus 71...

Singapore, Cuba fight dengue fever.
Singapore and Cuba, both known for excellence in controlling dengue fever, have joined forces to work together on researching the scourge. The Straits Times of Singapore reported Sept. 15 that besides coming up with findings to help over 100 tropical countries fight the mosquito-borne disease, the two...

Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market.
Judith B. Steinhoff. Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 264 pp. + 13 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-84664-1. Solid scholarship on an understudied Sienese painter, Bartolommeo Bulgarini,...